It does seem like this may be the RTM build, although the timing is a little early yet.
My first reaction was the build number 7600 is very similar to the XP build of 2600 (yeah, I'm grasping at straws here.) It would be in MS favor to strongly relate this to XP and try to distance themselves from refencing Vista, which the correlation I just noted might help backup in people's minds.
However, the timing is just a little too early. The stated general retail release date from June's Computex is October 22. Historically, a MS OS RTM is released 30-45 days prior to the general retail date. That would place the RTM as beginning of September at earliest. Even a generous 60 day RTM date would place the date in mid-August, a month from now. Pressing and stamping aside (and what's to say a RTM DVD can't be downloaded over the net from a registration server similar to how volume and open license customers can already do), that's a little early yet.
And can anyone draw any significance from 16384 being 2^14? Or would that just indicate something like the 14th build of the master OS?
Sorry, I meant vSphere. Was trying to think off the top of my head what was next after VMWare Infrastructure. I should have gone and looked rather than try to depend on memory.
I believe rather than moving to 1U servers, many companies will be (and already are) looking at virtualization via VMWare and HyperV. Yes, a 1U server attached to about 2TB space allocated on a backend Clarion and running a lowend Oracle or SQL database functionality is better power wise than a 4-6U server with 2TB(+redundancy) space locally running the exact same functions.
However, IF that functionality is capable of being run on a VM guest, you could put that and 20 other virtual servers in a maxed out (full hardware complement) HP DL580 G5 running VMware Fusion hooked to a backend SAN, and save even more power than breaking those individually out to separate 1U servers connected to the SAN. Multiple Fusion servers hooked into a farm for failover redundancy, at that, in case a host server goes down.
Better decision though, if you really have the capacity need for it, is to actually setup a database farm (with multi host redundancy) of those 4U servers, and run multiple databases, not just one, off of it. Do the same for your Apache farm, your SQL farm, etc... let the VM hosts handle the servers that can't be placed in a farm.
In order of functionality, then: Farms broken into functionality > VMs > server individualization in lowest form factor server possible > server individualization in a big server, leaving tons of wasted resources.
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Note... That's Don Davis, not to be confused with Don Davis, aka General Hammond from SG1.
Although, I do believe that somewhere in the SG1 mythos it was suggested that Tunguska was either a failed Asgard or Goa'uld experiment, or that it was a weapons blast from orbit by a Ha'tak mothership.
Not that that has anything to do with this article or anything....
Actually, looking at the battery, ir looks like the same exact type of battery as you'd find in an APC small (450-800VA) UPS. We also used the same batteries for emergency power in our door access systems to power the controller when I was managing those at a small college. That type of battery is widely used to compensate for short term power outages.
I presume, given the amount of hardware shown (2 drives, 2 processors, motherboard, RAM) that the battery would probably last that given system about 7-10 minutes... plenty of time for the electric system to failover to the generator farm (you know they have more than 2 for redundancy.
As to the lifetime on those batteries... I was replacing them every 3-3.5 years, maybe 4 if I was lucky. It's a standard generic battery, and the failure rate on them is quite low.
I'd echo another user... If Google wanted to be smart, they wouldn't bother repairing a server when a component fails. Server obselescence at a company that can afford it is about 3-4 years... pretty close to the time for these batteries. They'd probably just pull the main power on it, and when a threshold of servers is "dead" in the container, they pull it offline for renovation... Either to repair the bad servers, or just retire everything.
Aero Peek isn't totally new. Vista has had Aero Peek all along. The difference is that in Vista's Aero Peek, you weren't able to see ALL the peek preview windows by hovering over the taskbar stack. You had to open the taskbar stack's context window that showed all the different items, then you could peek at each item.
Oh wait, I forgot. Vista doesn't exist. Sorry about that. I must be new here.
The way I see it, another App store that is on another platform is not really a direct rival to Apple's iTunes App store for iPhone/iPod touch. They're not REALLY stealing any sales from Apple's store, as the Apple users will still continue to have to use the iTunes app store to buy stuff for their iPhones/iPod touch.
Now, if someone was to open an app store that was able to sync and install onto the iPhone, THAT would be a rival. Yes, at the moment that would require Apple certifying the application to be able to sync to the iPhone, and configuring the iPhone to allow such a store to sync onto it, which we all know would probably be as likely to happen as seeing Halley's comet next month near Earth.
Maybe, in the future, all these stores will coalesce into one big store, or use an open framework so that each store can sync onto any device... but for now, they are not really competition of each other so long as each store retains sole rights over its respective device.
Actually, most large hardware vendors will, on request, ship out a sample machine to the IT Dept at the target company. They ask the IT Dept to install the default image they want. The IT Dept would obviously wipe the drive, reinstall with a fresh copy of their own Volume License copy of Windows (XP/Vista/7) with all relevant initial software, testing, etc. I'm sure if you were a large enough company and wanted 20 different initial configurations, the vendor would accommodate you. Another option would be to just install the Ghost system partition, and send to vendor... your machines would come with Ghost then, and you could deploy whatever image you wanted to them.
Then, after the sample machine is imaged and qualified for production usage, ship it back... then the hardware vendor clones that to all subsequent systems that are sent out. Personally, I've dealt with HP and Dell and they both have done that for large scale rollouts (you don't want to sit and clone 500 desktops and 400 laptops, its much easier to have the factory clone your image onto them.)
There's also a signed contract agreement that the vendor does not touch or alter your image in any fashion or include any additional partitions or software on the computers.
Use SMS from there to deploy applications to the desktop, and there you have your custom machine.
I personally as an admin would NEVER allow a machine containing a factory default image onto my production network. Regardless of the miscellaneous CRAP applications that are bundled, you never know if the person who created the image had any malicious intentions... and would you willingly let that propagate across 100, 1000, or 10,000 computers in your network? Is there some trojan that you just deployed? We've heard too many stories here about just that exact thing happening to systems sold at Walmart, Best Buy, Circuit City, et al. I'd rather wipe and reload, than let a factory default image that I haven't seen or reviewed ahead of time be deployed in a production network.
And BTW, who in his right mind loads a major OS, then an upgrade, and another upgrade, and expects it to work 100 percent? Will the same machine work under a clean install of the final OS?
The article mentions that even if we moved out of the solar system, we couldn't escape nuclear decay of matter that happens in 1032 to 1041 years. Can someone tell me what is projected to happen in 3040 that will cause this?
Sorry, but this is one situation where the iPhone CAN'T help... not only is keyboard all software based (no hard keys), but there is no voice dialing (yet).
The question is, what if your Avatar in your VR is a Undead in WoW? Will you then be Skin and Bones... without the skin?
I understand what the article is talking about, but this will only work for people with certain mindsets, and who use the VR interface (whether a real VR, or a avatar based system such as SecondLife or ActiveWorlds) in moderation. Using the VR extensively will mean you are giving up time in Real life that could be used moving around and instead settling into a sedentary state.
All things in moderation.
As a last note, I'm not even going to get into the case of where a male has a female character as an avatar and tries to look like them....
I doubt the PS3 will drop the BluRay drive, if only for the fact that it will allow sheer amounts of game data and integrated pre-rendered movies in games. At the rate that games have progressed, it is entirely possible for a single game to outgrow the size that a single DVD can hold (and that actually did happen with a few games even back on the previous generation PS2.)
The only caveat to what I'm saying is if games are run similar to how the PC game GuildWars is run. By that I mean that a small initial core loader is provided, then the system connects to the Internet and stream downloads required character skins and environment textures, as well as sound/music/video just for the upcoming game area/fight/stage, caching that all to the PS3 local HDD for future reference. The game would also, like GuildWars, only download minimal amounts, and during gameplay precahce more data for the next area/stage.
Of course, this would mean the PS3 would need constant Internet connectivity, and players would sit waiting for a small interlude at each stage. However, it would cut down the capacity requirements of the initial media, and allow ongoing adjustments and bug fixes to the game.
If its as simple as incoming port 25 open, outgoing port 25 blocked: NOIP has a service... outbound SMTP reflector. I think its $19/year, and has limit of 100 outgoing messages. Set your mailserver to send to them on a different port, then they reflect that out on port 25 of their own.
Read the summary... they are talking about it replacing what is now considered LAN, with all devices direct connected to Internet (presumably through IPv6).
I don't really think the LAN will ever become obsolete. There will always be unmanaged network equipment that is cheaper and higher speed than that which the Internet provider can supply.
For residential with a small number of computers and a relatively unsophisticated network layout (a few computers that do minor file/print sharing, a laptop or two, a game console), yes, the wireless gig connection straight to Internet may be the replacement for the LAN as we know it.
For many in the Slashdot crowd, who have a file server at home with movies, music, VM images, and maybe 3 or 4 computers that use that... then the need for a local network that connects at faster speeds than wireless gig can offer might possibly be a need. I know personally I have a wired gig network at home, and many times I think that it is relatively slow to transfer a gig in a few minutes... imagine if in the future I purchase a 50GB 1080p movie with DRM licensing to watch on 3 authorized devices, download it on my wireless gig Internet connection and it finishes in about half an hour, and store it on my home media center... then I decide to watch it on the TV somewhere else in the house. A half hour copy time (putting streaming and buffering aside for the moment) would be slow, whereas having a 10Gbps or a 1Tbps connection would let me copy it in a minute or two.
Educational institutions, such as colleges, would have even more of a need, as they would have local NAS storage with stored video lectures. All students streaming on a single 1Gbps feed would quickly overload the server. Instead, a 10Gbps or 1Tbps connection on the local network would again be worthwhile.
Companies, such as the US Government, biochemical, or industrial companies, would almost certainly have a need for a LAN, just to keep business practices secret and minimize corporate espionage leaks.
You just met one. I have a PS3, and I don't have any BD DVD's. I also don't have any HD-DVD's.
Why? For the very reason the argument is going on about... and the fact that I would rather (for my own preferences, none other) have a standalone CD player.
I'm really not up with my gravity understanding in space, so forgive me for sounding ignorant.
If you just placed the paper plane just outside the airlock of the space station, without any additional momentum added, would the space station's mass exert a small gravity well that would keep the plane alongside the station? Or is the Earth's gravity stronger at that point because of the space station's altitude that the plane would be pulled toward Earth?
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It does seem like this may be the RTM build, although the timing is a little early yet.
My first reaction was the build number 7600 is very similar to the XP build of 2600 (yeah, I'm grasping at straws here.) It would be in MS favor to strongly relate this to XP and try to distance themselves from refencing Vista, which the correlation I just noted might help backup in people's minds.
However, the timing is just a little too early. The stated general retail release date from June's Computex is October 22. Historically, a MS OS RTM is released 30-45 days prior to the general retail date. That would place the RTM as beginning of September at earliest. Even a generous 60 day RTM date would place the date in mid-August, a month from now. Pressing and stamping aside (and what's to say a RTM DVD can't be downloaded over the net from a registration server similar to how volume and open license customers can already do), that's a little early yet.
And can anyone draw any significance from 16384 being 2^14? Or would that just indicate something like the 14th build of the master OS?
It's a simple that was borked, if you look at the source it shows as instead of
They'll fix it soon enough... mods, feel free to mark this down as overrated or offtopic.
Sorry, I meant vSphere. Was trying to think off the top of my head what was next after VMWare Infrastructure. I should have gone and looked rather than try to depend on memory.
I believe rather than moving to 1U servers, many companies will be (and already are) looking at virtualization via VMWare and HyperV. Yes, a 1U server attached to about 2TB space allocated on a backend Clarion and running a lowend Oracle or SQL database functionality is better power wise than a 4-6U server with 2TB(+redundancy) space locally running the exact same functions.
However, IF that functionality is capable of being run on a VM guest, you could put that and 20 other virtual servers in a maxed out (full hardware complement) HP DL580 G5 running VMware Fusion hooked to a backend SAN, and save even more power than breaking those individually out to separate 1U servers connected to the SAN. Multiple Fusion servers hooked into a farm for failover redundancy, at that, in case a host server goes down.
Better decision though, if you really have the capacity need for it, is to actually setup a database farm (with multi host redundancy) of those 4U servers, and run multiple databases, not just one, off of it. Do the same for your Apache farm, your SQL farm, etc... let the VM hosts handle the servers that can't be placed in a farm.
In order of functionality, then: Farms broken into functionality > VMs > server individualization in lowest form factor server possible > server individualization in a big server, leaving tons of wasted resources.
Note... That's Don Davis, not to be confused with Don Davis, aka General Hammond from SG1.
Although, I do believe that somewhere in the SG1 mythos it was suggested that Tunguska was either a failed Asgard or Goa'uld experiment, or that it was a weapons blast from orbit by a Ha'tak mothership.
Not that that has anything to do with this article or anything....
The only warp capability you might possibly get with your laptop would be of the OS2 variety.
Read the article. Plant is being constructed a days walk from Rome.
Actually, looking at the battery, ir looks like the same exact type of battery as you'd find in an APC small (450-800VA) UPS. We also used the same batteries for emergency power in our door access systems to power the controller when I was managing those at a small college. That type of battery is widely used to compensate for short term power outages.
I presume, given the amount of hardware shown (2 drives, 2 processors, motherboard, RAM) that the battery would probably last that given system about 7-10 minutes... plenty of time for the electric system to failover to the generator farm (you know they have more than 2 for redundancy.
As to the lifetime on those batteries... I was replacing them every 3-3.5 years, maybe 4 if I was lucky. It's a standard generic battery, and the failure rate on them is quite low.
I'd echo another user... If Google wanted to be smart, they wouldn't bother repairing a server when a component fails. Server obselescence at a company that can afford it is about 3-4 years... pretty close to the time for these batteries. They'd probably just pull the main power on it, and when a threshold of servers is "dead" in the container, they pull it offline for renovation... Either to repair the bad servers, or just retire everything.
Think someone will have to then report you for using the Hot Coffee mod.
Aero Peek isn't totally new. Vista has had Aero Peek all along. The difference is that in Vista's Aero Peek, you weren't able to see ALL the peek preview windows by hovering over the taskbar stack. You had to open the taskbar stack's context window that showed all the different items, then you could peek at each item.
Oh wait, I forgot. Vista doesn't exist. Sorry about that. I must be new here.
The way I see it, another App store that is on another platform is not really a direct rival to Apple's iTunes App store for iPhone/iPod touch. They're not REALLY stealing any sales from Apple's store, as the Apple users will still continue to have to use the iTunes app store to buy stuff for their iPhones/iPod touch.
Now, if someone was to open an app store that was able to sync and install onto the iPhone, THAT would be a rival. Yes, at the moment that would require Apple certifying the application to be able to sync to the iPhone, and configuring the iPhone to allow such a store to sync onto it, which we all know would probably be as likely to happen as seeing Halley's comet next month near Earth.
Maybe, in the future, all these stores will coalesce into one big store, or use an open framework so that each store can sync onto any device... but for now, they are not really competition of each other so long as each store retains sole rights over its respective device.
Actually, most large hardware vendors will, on request, ship out a sample machine to the IT Dept at the target company. They ask the IT Dept to install the default image they want. The IT Dept would obviously wipe the drive, reinstall with a fresh copy of their own Volume License copy of Windows (XP/Vista/7) with all relevant initial software, testing, etc. I'm sure if you were a large enough company and wanted 20 different initial configurations, the vendor would accommodate you. Another option would be to just install the Ghost system partition, and send to vendor... your machines would come with Ghost then, and you could deploy whatever image you wanted to them.
Then, after the sample machine is imaged and qualified for production usage, ship it back... then the hardware vendor clones that to all subsequent systems that are sent out. Personally, I've dealt with HP and Dell and they both have done that for large scale rollouts (you don't want to sit and clone 500 desktops and 400 laptops, its much easier to have the factory clone your image onto them.)
There's also a signed contract agreement that the vendor does not touch or alter your image in any fashion or include any additional partitions or software on the computers.
Use SMS from there to deploy applications to the desktop, and there you have your custom machine.
I personally as an admin would NEVER allow a machine containing a factory default image onto my production network. Regardless of the miscellaneous CRAP applications that are bundled, you never know if the person who created the image had any malicious intentions... and would you willingly let that propagate across 100, 1000, or 10,000 computers in your network? Is there some trojan that you just deployed? We've heard too many stories here about just that exact thing happening to systems sold at Walmart, Best Buy, Circuit City, et al. I'd rather wipe and reload, than let a factory default image that I haven't seen or reviewed ahead of time be deployed in a production network.
And BTW, who in his right mind loads a major OS, then an upgrade, and another upgrade, and expects it to work 100 percent? Will the same machine work under a clean install of the final OS?
The article mentions that even if we moved out of the solar system, we couldn't escape nuclear decay of matter that happens in 1032 to 1041 years. Can someone tell me what is projected to happen in 3040 that will cause this?
Sorry, but this is one situation where the iPhone CAN'T help... not only is keyboard all software based (no hard keys), but there is no voice dialing (yet).
The question is, what if your Avatar in your VR is a Undead in WoW? Will you then be Skin and Bones... without the skin?
I understand what the article is talking about, but this will only work for people with certain mindsets, and who use the VR interface (whether a real VR, or a avatar based system such as SecondLife or ActiveWorlds) in moderation. Using the VR extensively will mean you are giving up time in Real life that could be used moving around and instead settling into a sedentary state.
All things in moderation.
As a last note, I'm not even going to get into the case of where a male has a female character as an avatar and tries to look like them....
If I only had a modpoint, I'd rank you +5 Funny
I doubt the PS3 will drop the BluRay drive, if only for the fact that it will allow sheer amounts of game data and integrated pre-rendered movies in games. At the rate that games have progressed, it is entirely possible for a single game to outgrow the size that a single DVD can hold (and that actually did happen with a few games even back on the previous generation PS2.)
The only caveat to what I'm saying is if games are run similar to how the PC game GuildWars is run. By that I mean that a small initial core loader is provided, then the system connects to the Internet and stream downloads required character skins and environment textures, as well as sound/music/video just for the upcoming game area/fight/stage, caching that all to the PS3 local HDD for future reference. The game would also, like GuildWars, only download minimal amounts, and during gameplay precahce more data for the next area/stage.
Of course, this would mean the PS3 would need constant Internet connectivity, and players would sit waiting for a small interlude at each stage. However, it would cut down the capacity requirements of the initial media, and allow ongoing adjustments and bug fixes to the game.
If its as simple as incoming port 25 open, outgoing port 25 blocked: NOIP has a service... outbound SMTP reflector. I think its $19/year, and has limit of 100 outgoing messages. Set your mailserver to send to them on a different port, then they reflect that out on port 25 of their own.
Read the summary... they are talking about it replacing what is now considered LAN, with all devices direct connected to Internet (presumably through IPv6).
I don't really think the LAN will ever become obsolete. There will always be unmanaged network equipment that is cheaper and higher speed than that which the Internet provider can supply.
For residential with a small number of computers and a relatively unsophisticated network layout (a few computers that do minor file/print sharing, a laptop or two, a game console), yes, the wireless gig connection straight to Internet may be the replacement for the LAN as we know it.
For many in the Slashdot crowd, who have a file server at home with movies, music, VM images, and maybe 3 or 4 computers that use that... then the need for a local network that connects at faster speeds than wireless gig can offer might possibly be a need. I know personally I have a wired gig network at home, and many times I think that it is relatively slow to transfer a gig in a few minutes... imagine if in the future I purchase a 50GB 1080p movie with DRM licensing to watch on 3 authorized devices, download it on my wireless gig Internet connection and it finishes in about half an hour, and store it on my home media center... then I decide to watch it on the TV somewhere else in the house. A half hour copy time (putting streaming and buffering aside for the moment) would be slow, whereas having a 10Gbps or a 1Tbps connection would let me copy it in a minute or two.
Educational institutions, such as colleges, would have even more of a need, as they would have local NAS storage with stored video lectures. All students streaming on a single 1Gbps feed would quickly overload the server. Instead, a 10Gbps or 1Tbps connection on the local network would again be worthwhile.
Companies, such as the US Government, biochemical, or industrial companies, would almost certainly have a need for a LAN, just to keep business practices secret and minimize corporate espionage leaks.
And that's what the preview button is for... I should have written standalone DVD player.
You just met one. I have a PS3, and I don't have any BD DVD's. I also don't have any HD-DVD's.
Why? For the very reason the argument is going on about... and the fact that I would rather (for my own preferences, none other) have a standalone CD player.
I'm really not up with my gravity understanding in space, so forgive me for sounding ignorant.
If you just placed the paper plane just outside the airlock of the space station, without any additional momentum added, would the space station's mass exert a small gravity well that would keep the plane alongside the station? Or is the Earth's gravity stronger at that point because of the space station's altitude that the plane would be pulled toward Earth?